a la carte would cause a major transformation and consolidation in the TV entertainment industry. Many networks will fold up shop due to lack of interest, and the useful pieces will be scooped up by the larger fish. Instead of 200 channels, we would end up with possibly a dozen or less large studios who would give us all our entertainment. It's almost like we would head back towards when we had only over the air TV, in terms of the number of companies.
With this, one...

That's about the most obtuse thing I've ever read here (and that's saying a lot), referring to one of the most renowned Supreme Court Justices in history as such. Oliver Wendell Holmes vs SpamSandwich. Yeah, that's one for the ages /s

Wait, what? The police would still have no problem getting a warrant to intercept any phone calls (those aren't encrypted in storage on the phone) or to track his/her GPS (again, not encrypted) if the offender is dumb enough to use them. Everything you mentioned above is no conundrum at all, even for all us troglodytes here at AI.

Reported for personal attacks which I have removed in this quote. With a proper warrant, the owner can be compelled to open their phone, or have the authorities open it. This just makes it so they cannot compel the company who made the device to open it, just like a computer - which it is. This isn't a phone tap, this is access to a computer.

I'm sick and tired of these stores losing our information. We've had to have 5 cards replaced in the past 6 months with 2 being sold and used just last week because of data breaches.
I can't wait to be able to actually shop securely.

Not that Beats is awesome, but I can't get my Bose Soundlink Air to keep hold of my wifi signal long enough to play a single song, and as of last night I can't get it to change the password either. It's currently a $300 brick. :/